print email comment close Figures of Speech From Early Modern Literature URL: http://www.nipissingu.ca/faculty/williams/figofspe.htm Description: From a course in early modern literature, this page provides definitions of various figures of speech and examples from literature of the period. Categories include tropes, metaplasmic figures, as well as figures of omission, repetition, unusual word order, and thought. From a professor at Nipissing University, Ontario, Canada. Author: Williams, Grant Publisher: Nipissing University Library of Congress Subject Headings: English language -- Terms and phrases Figures of speech LII Database Information: Record 16698 created by Dana Lubow on 07/21/2001 Last modification on 10/08/2003 Last review by Charlotte Bagby on 10/07/2006 Published: 07/21/2001   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/16698